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===Population over time=== {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:98%;" ! colspan="4" |Population of Hungary over time with estimated percentages of ethnic Hungarians within Hungary |- !width=10%|Date !width=20%|Estimated Population !width=30%|Estimated Percentages of [[Hungarian people]], with and without Inclusion of the [[Kingdom of Croatia (disambiguation)|Kingdom of Croatia]] !width=40%|Notes |- |{{circa}} 900 [[Anno Domini|AD]] | * 250,000-350,000<ref name="Kovacsics"/> * 500,000-600,000<ref name="Kovacsics"/> * 600,000<ref name="A Country Study: Hungary"/> * 1,000,000-1,500,000<ref name="Rabb"/> |66%<ref name="A Country Study: Hungary"/><ref name="books.google.co.uk"/> |''Size of the country was about 330 thousand square km,<ref name="Rabb"/> with a density of 3-4.5 <ref name="Rabb"/> or 0.56-1.06 <ref name="Kovacsics"/> persons per square km'' |- |1000 |1,000,000-1,500,000<ref name="Sebők">Marcell Sebők, [https://books.google.com/books?id=rbWZAgg9a5EC&dq=Hungary+medieval+population+million&pg=PA658 The man of many devices, who wandered full many ways--: festschrift in honour of János M. Bak], Central European University Press, 1999, p. 658</ref> | | |- |1060 |500,000-550,000<ref name="Kovacsics"/> | |''A density of 1.51-1.67 persons per square km.<ref name="Kovacsics"/>'' |- |1100 |2,000,000<ref name="Rabb">Péter Rabb, [http://www.pp.bme.hu/ar/article/view/42/36 Natural conditions in the Carpathian Basin of the Middle Ages], 2007, p. 58</ref> | | |- |1181 |2,600,000<ref name="Rabb"/> | | |- |1200 |1,000,000-1,100,000<ref name="Kovacsics"/> | |''A density of 3.03-3.33 persons per square km (330 thousand square km).<ref name="Kovacsics"/> '' |- |1222 |2,000,000<ref name="Berend">Nóra Berend, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QilobDXhObYC&q=2+million&pg=PA299 At the gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims, and "pagans" in medieval Hungary, c. 1000-c. 1300], Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 63-72</ref> |70–80%<ref name="carth">''Historical World Atlas. With the commendation of the [[Royal Geographical Society]].'' Carthographia, [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]], 2005. {{ISBN|978-963-352-002-4}} CM</ref> |''The time of the [[Golden Bull of 1222|Golden Bull]]. The last estimate before the [[Mongol invasion of Europe|Tatar invasion]].'' |- |1242 | *1,020,000-1,220,000<ref name="Kovacsics"/> *1,200,000<ref name="carth"/> | |''Population decreased after the [[Mongol invasion of Europe#Invasion of the Kingdom of Hungary|Mongol invasion of Hungary]] (estimates of population loss range from 20% to 50%).<ref>Peter Purton, [https://books.google.com/books?id=JEeIwN6YzosC&dq=Hungary+medieval+population+million&pg=PA15 A History of the Late Medieval Siege, 1200-1500], Boydell & Brewer, 2009, p. 15</ref>'' |- |1300 | *1,400,000-1,600,000<ref name="Kovacsics"/> *2,000,000<ref name="Nyberg">Tore Nyberg, Lars Bisgaard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=e77YAAAAMAAJ&q=+3.5-4+million Medieval spirituality in Scandinavia and Europe: a collection of essays in honour of Tore Nyberg], Odense University Press, 2001, p. 170</ref> *3,000,000<ref name="Rabb"/> | | |- |1348 | *5,000,000<ref name="Russell">Josiah Cox Russell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=s_sMAQAAIAAJ&q=Hungary Late ancient and medieval population], American Philosophical Society, 1958, p. 100</ref> *3,000,000<ref name="Enyedi">György Enyedi, Hungary: an economic geography, Westview Press, 1976, p. 23</ref><ref>Miklós Molnár, [https://books.google.com/books?id=y0g4YEp7ZrsC&dq=Hungary+medieval+population+million&pg=PA42 A concise history of Hungary], Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 42</ref> | |''Before the plague (at the time of the [[Capetian House of Anjou|Angevin]] kings).'' |- |1370 |{{circa}} 2,000,000 |60–70%<ref name="carth"/> (including Croatia) | |- |- |1400 | *3,000,000-3,500,000<ref name="Mannová">Elena Mannová, Blanka Brezováková, [https://books.google.com/books?id=f6MUAQAAIAAJ&q=3-3.5+million A concise history of Slovakia], Historický ústav SAV, 2000, p. 88</ref> *3,000,000<ref name="Russell"/> | | |- |1490 | *5,000,000<ref>Joseph Slabey Rouček, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qxfTAAAAMAAJ&q=numbered+5 Contemporary Europe: a study of national, international, economic, and cultural trends. A symposium], D. Van Nostrand Co., 1947, p. 424</ref><ref name="Bush">M. L. Bush, [https://books.google.com/books?id=RrmGcKC75ggC&dq=1711+hungarian+population+million&pg=PA143 Servitude in modern times], Wiley-Blackwell, 2000, p. 143</ref> *4,500,000-5,000,000<ref name="Enyedi"/><ref>Éva Molnár, [https://books.google.com/books?id=yRUiAQAAIAAJ&q=%22end+of+the+15th+century%22+ Hungary: essential facts, figures & pictures], MTI Media Data Bank, 1995</ref> *4,000,000-4,500,000<ref name="Mannová"/> *4,000,000<ref name="Nyberg"/><ref name="Bahr"/><ref name="Patai"/><ref name="Halasz" /> *3,500,000-4,000,000<ref name="Sebők"/> *3,400,000<ref>Joseph Held, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QuBnAAAAMAAJ&q=%223.4+million%22 Hunyadi: legend and reality], East European Monographs, 1985, p. 59</ref> | *90%<ref name="Potter">George Richard Potter, The New Cambridge modern history: The Renaissance, 1493–1520, CUP Archive, 1971, p. 405 [https://books.google.com/books?id=1BY9AAAAIAAJ&dq=Hungarians+1720+percent+population&pg=PA405]</ref> *80-85%<ref name="Ukrainian">The New review, Volume 6, World Federation of Ukrainian Former Political Prisoners and Victims of the Soviet Regime, A. Pidhainy., 1966, p. 25 [https://books.google.com/books?id=wPgXAAAAIAAJ&q=+80-85%25]</ref> *80%<ref name="carth"/><ref>Leslie Konnyu, Hungarians in the United States: an immigration study, American Hungarian Review, 1967, p. 4 [https://archive.org/details/hungariansinunit00konn <!-- quote= 80 stock. -->]</ref><ref>László Kósa, István Soós, A companion to Hungarian studies, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1999, p. 16 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0rhnAAAAMAAJ&q=+Hungarians++about+eighty+percent+]</ref><ref>Teppo Korhonen, Helena Ruotsala, Eeva Uusitalo, Making and breaking of borders: ethnological interpretations, presentations, representations, Finnish Literature Society, 2003, p.39 [https://books.google.com/books?id=RiISAQAAIAAJ&q=80+made+up+of+]</ref> *77%<ref name="Bahr">Lauren S. Bahr, Bernard Johnston (M.A.), [https://books.google.com/books?id=ApcxAQAAIAAJ&q=%22the+country%27s+total%22 Collier's encyclopedia: with bibliography and index, Volume 12], P.F. Collier, 1993, p. 381-383</ref> *75-80%<ref>Carlile Aylmer Macartney, The Habsburg Empire, 1790–1918, Macmillan, 1969, p. 79 [https://books.google.com/books?id=latnAAAAMAAJ&q=1500+seventy-five]</ref><ref>Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, Infobase Publishing, 2009, p. 258 [https://books.google.com/books?id=QjzYdCxumFcC&dq=population+Magyars++80+percent&pg=PA258]</ref><ref>Domokos G. Kosáry, A history of Hungary, The Benjamin Franklin bibliophile society, 1941, p. 79 [https://books.google.com/books?id=AHsjAAAAMAAJ&q=77+per+cent]</ref><ref name="Hochedlinger" /> |The last nationwide registry in Kingdom of Hungary before the Ottoman period was carried out in 1494–1495 on the commission of the royal treasury.''<ref name="Archives">{{Cite web |last=Bánszki Hajnalka |title=Népösszeírások, népszámlálások és statisztikák |trans-title=Censuses, population surveys and statistics |url=https://mnl.gov.hu/mnl/szszbml/neposszeirasok_nepszamlalasok_es_statisztikak |website=Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary]}}</ref> ''Before the Ottoman conquest (about 3.2 million Hungarians).'' |- |1600 | *4,000,000-4,500,000<ref name="Tóth"/> *3,500,000<ref name="Murphey"/> | |''Populations of Royal Hungary, Transylvania, and Ottoman Hungary combined.'' |- |1699 | *4,000,000<ref name="Tóth">István György Tóth, Gábor Ágoston, [https://books.google.com/books?id=9AMiAQAAIAAJ&q=+4+milli%C3%B3 Millenniumi magyar történet: Magyarország története a honfoglalástól napjainkig], Osiris, 2001, p. 321</ref><ref name="Murphey">Rhoads Murphey, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dGs0soIEJEUC&dq=Hungary+medieval+population+million&pg=PA174 Ottoman warfare, 1500-1700], Rutgers University Press, 1999, p. 174</ref><ref name="Papp-Barta">Klára Papp – János Barta Jr., [http://www.hhrf.org/kisebbsegkutatas/mr_06/cikk.php?id=1251 Minorities research 6.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111229115403/http://www.hhrf.org/kisebbsegkutatas/mr_06/cikk.php?id=1251 |date=2011-12-29 }}, Kisebbségkutatás (Minorities Studies and Reviews)</ref> *3,500,000-4,000,000<ref name="Hochedlinger">Michael Hochedlinger, [https://books.google.com/books?id=U-LTw-cylfoC&dq=Hungary+medieval+population+million&pg=PA21 Austria's wars of emergence: war, state and society in the Habsburg monarchy, 1683-1797], Pearson Education, 2003, p. 21</ref> *3,500,000<ref>Lonnie Johnson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qfUWAQAAIAAJ&q=3.5+million Central Europe: enemies, neighbors, friends], Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 100</ref> | *50–55%<ref name="carth"/><ref name="Adanir">The Ottomans and the Balkans: a discussion of historiography By Fikret Adanır, Suraiya Faroqhi p.333 [https://books.google.com/books?id=4gNQtt2s1wMC&dq=hungarian+population+1700&pg=PA333]{{Dead link|date=November 2023|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> *50%<ref name="Hochedlinger" /><ref name="Papp-Barta"/> |''At the time of [[Treaty of Karlowitz]] (not more than 2 million Hungarians).'' |- |1711 | *4,000,000<ref>Eric H. Boehm, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QiRBAQAAIAAJ&q=four+million Historical abstracts: Modern history abstracts, 1450-1914, Volume 49, Issues 1-2], American Bibliographical Center of ABC-Clio, 1998, p. 331</ref> *2,500,000<ref name="Bush"/> | *53%<ref name="carth"/> *45%<ref name="Ukrainian" /> |''At the end of the [[Kuruc]] War, starting date of the organized resettlement.'' |- |1720 | *4,000,000-4,500,000<ref>Imre Wellmann, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cqAuAAAAMAAJ&q=%221720-ban+m%C3%A1r%22 A magyar mezőgazdaság a XVIII. században], Akadémiai Kiadó, 1979, p. 13</ref> *4,000,000<ref name="Kovacsics"/><ref name="Halasz">Zoltán Halász, [https://books.google.com/books?id=4sZnAAAAMAAJ&q=+4+million Hungary: a guide with a difference], Corvina Press, 1978, pp. 20-22</ref><ref>Rudolf Andorka, [https://books.google.com/books?id=iaM9AAAAIAAJ&dq=1711+hungarian+population+million&pg=PA93 Determinants of fertility in advanced societies], Taylor & Francis, 1978, p. 93</ref> *3,500,000<ref name="Patai">Raphael Patai, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LLuPS1yVDf8C&q=1720 The Jews of Hungary: history, culture, psychology], Wayne State University Press, 1996, p. 201</ref><ref name="Kertesz">Stephen Denis Kertesz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ehsqAAAAYAAJ&q=75+to+80 Diplomacy in a whirlpool: Hungary between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia], Greenwood Press, 1974, p. 191</ref> *2,600,000-4,000,000<ref name="Kertzer">David I. Kertzer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=EdjcDFEGClcC&dq=1711+hungarian+population+million&pg=PA130 Aging in the past: demography, society, and old age], University of California Press, 1995, p. 130</ref> | *55%<ref name="Kertesz"/> *45%<ref name="Bahr"/> *44%<ref>M. L. Bush, Rich noble, poor noble, Manchester University Press ND, 1988, p. 19 [https://books.google.com/books?id=TIG7AAAAIAAJ&dq=magyars+population++1720&pg=PA19]</ref> *40%<ref name="Potter" /> *35%<ref name="Britannica2"/> | |- |1785-87 |8,000,000 | |''5% urban subjects.<ref>I[[Iván T. Berend]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=a9csmhIT_BQC&dq=census+hungary+1785+hungarians&pg=PA21 ''History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century'']</ref>'' |- |1790 | *9,000,000<ref name="Patai"/><ref name="Halasz" /><ref name="Sugar">Peter F. Sugar, Péter Hanák, [[Tibor Frank]], A History of Hungary, Indiana University Press, 1994 pp. 11-143.[https://books.google.com/books?id=SKwmGQCT0MAC&q=three+kabar&pg=PA1]</ref> *8,500,000<ref name="Bush"/> *8,100,000-8,200,000<ref name="Kertzer"/> | *40%<ref name="Britannica2"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5cBWAAAAMAAJ&q=being+in+a+minority+in|title=The Encyclopedia Americana|date=6 April 1968|publisher=Americana Corporation|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>Jonathan Dewald, Europe 1450 to 1789: encyclopedia of the early modern world, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004, p. 230 [https://books.google.com/books?id=8oQYAAAAIAAJ&q=comprised+less+than+40+percent+of+the+]</ref> *39%<ref name="Kovacsics">József Kovacsics, Population history of Hungary mirrored by the conference-series (896-1870) (Magyarország népességtörténete a konferenciasorozat tükrésben (896-1870)), In: Demographia, 1996 - VOLUME 39, NUMBER 2-3, p. 145-165</ref> *35%<ref>Arthur J. Sabin, Red Scare in Court: New York Versus the International Workers Order, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, p. 4 [https://books.google.com/books?id=J-WMEmarmEEC&dq=Hungarians+1780+percent+population&pg=PA4]</ref> |''End of the organized resettlement (around 800 new German villages had been established between 1711 and 1780).<ref>Thomas Spira, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mMhnAAAAMAAJ&q=800+ German-Hungarian relations and the Swabian problem: from Károlyi to Gömbös, 1919-1936], East European quarterly, 1977, p. 2</ref>'' |- |1828 |11,495,536 | | |- |1830 | | *37% (44 percent in central Hungary)<ref name="google2">{{cite book|title=Geopolitics of the Central European Region: The View from Prague and Bratislava|author1=Krej?í, O.|author2=Styan, M.C.|author3=vied, Ú.|date=2005|publisher=VEDA, Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences|isbn=9788022408523|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=38ciAe4J4VMC|page=284|access-date=2015-05-18}}</ref> | |- |1837 | | *44%<ref name="Bideleux" /> *37% (with [[Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia|Kingdom of Croatia]])<ref name="Bideleux">Robert Bideleux, Ian Jeffries, [https://books.google.com/books?id=g6l-AgAAQBAJ&dq=1837+44+percent+Hungary&pg=PT625 History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change], Taylor & Francis, 2007, page 259, {{ISBN|978-0-415-36627-4}}</ref> | |- |1846 |12,033,399 | *40–45% *41.6%<ref name="Lendvai">Paul Lendvai, The Hungarians: a thousand years of victory in defeat, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2003, p.286 [https://books.google.com/books?id=UtIr97n3tP0C&q=per+cent&pg=PA352]</ref> *36.5-40% (with Kingdom of Croatia)<ref name="Lendvai" /> |''Two years before the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848]].'' |- |1850 |11,600,000 | *41.4%<ref>A Concise History of Hungary, by Miklós Molnár page 179</ref> | |- |1857 |13,830,870 |44.5%<ref name="Kovacsics"/> | |- |1869 |13,508,000 |45.2%<ref>Andrew C. Janos. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MMYOx7QnHPwC&dq=1869+hungary+romanians&pg=PA127 ''The Politics of Backwardness in Hungary, 1825-1945'']</ref> | |- |1880 |13,749,603 |46% | |- |1900 |16,838,255 |51.4%<ref name="Frucht">Richard C. Frucht, Eastern Europe: an introduction to the people, lands, and culture / edited by Richard Frucht, Volume 1, ABC-CLIO, 2005, p. 356 [https://books.google.com/books?id=lVBB1a0rC70C&dq=population+Hungary+without+Croatia&pg=PA356]</ref> | |- |1910 |18,264,533 | *54.4%<ref name="Frucht" /> *48.1% (with Kingdom of Croatia)<ref>Carl Cavanagh Hodge, Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914: A-K, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008, p. 306 [https://books.google.com/books?id=NtEZ7Zq7s-gC&dq=population+Magyars++percent+middle+age&pg=PA306]</ref> |''5% [[History of the Jews in Hungary|Jews]] (estimated according to their religion).'' |} Note: The data refer to the territory of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]], and not that of the present-day republic. ====Demographics of Kingdom of Hungary, (1910 Census)====
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